Practice Test

Question 1

Read this excerpt from "Ritmo/Rhythm” by Margarita Engle. Older cousins show me how to shake the mule’s quijada , to make the blunt teeth rattle. Guitars. Drums. Gourds. Sticks. A cow bell. A washboard. Pretty soon, we have a whole orchestra. How does the poet’s use of line length contribute to the imaginative tone of the excerpt?

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B: It signals time passing by showing how “pretty soon” the speaker is able to collect many items.

Question 2

Read the sentence. Timothy walk to school everyday, and he lives four miles away. Which is the best revision of the underlined word?

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C: walks

Question 3

Read the sentence. _________ went to baseball practice together today. Which best fits in the blank?

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C: We

Question 4

Read the excerpt from "Duty.” What can I do but this? Let him tell it again and again as if it’s always been only us, and that, when it mattered, he was the one who saved me. Which universal theme is shown in the excerpt?

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C: the importance of memory

Question 5

How are the themes of “We Wear the Mask” and "A Man Said to the Universe" similar?

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D: Both show how humans can be helpless in the face of external forces.

Question 6

Which images in the poem “We Wear the Mask” best portray an ironic contrast?

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C: grins and lies

Question 7

Read these excerpts. Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth. Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!". My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. How does "The Gettysburg Address” and "O Captain! My Captain!” compare in their use of ethos (the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way)?

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B: The speech relies more on ethos than the poem does.

Question 8

Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!". The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; What does this line refer to?

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C: The ship is the army, which is safe now that the war is over.

Question 9

Which graphical element does the poet use in this excerpt?

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B: capital letters

Question 10

Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.” Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island split on half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried. The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque here, at the fort’s entrance— each Confederate soldier’s name raised hard in bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards— 2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? Which universal theme is reflected in the excerpt?

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D: the impact of the past on the present

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